Curses in colour?

[Chris Reay]

Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> wrote in message news:<m31yp9zll0.fsf at atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk>...
> 
> This works for me:
> 
> import curses
> 
> def main(stdscr):
>     curses.init_pair(1,curses.COLOR_RED,curses.COLOR_BLUE)
>     curses.init_pair(2,curses.COLOR_YELLOW,curses.COLOR_GREEN)
>     curses.curs_set(0)
> 
>     win = curses.newwin(10,0,0,0)
>     win.bkgd(curses.color_pair(1))
>     win.box()
>     win.addstr(1,2,"hello!",curses.color_pair(2))
>     win.refresh()
>     while win.getch() == -1:
>         pass
> 
> curses.wrapper(main)
> 
> ... I'm far from being a curses expert, though.
> 
> Cheers,
> M.

Thanks, Michael. That made the diffrence. The excellent article by
Eric Raymond on curses programming doesn't emphasise the requirement
to create one's own colour pairs a la
"curses.init_pair(1,curses.COLOR_RED,curses.COLOR_BLUE)".

Yours

Chris (no longer cursing curses)